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Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies, and their implications for "northern" science. All three science studies strains have developed in the context of post-World War II science and technology projects. They illustrate how technoscientific projects mean different things to different groups. The meaning attached by the culture of the West may not be shared or may be diametrically opposite in the cultures in other parts of the world. All, however, would agree that scientific projects—modern science included—are "local knowledge systems." The interests and discursive resources that the various science studies bring groups to their projects, and the ways that they organize the production of their kind of science studies, are distinctively culturally-local also. While their projects may be unintentionally converging, they also conflict in fundamental respects. How is this inevitable cultural-situatedness of knowledge both an invaluable resource as well as a limitation on the advance of knowledge about nature? What are the distinctive resources that the feminist and postcolonial science theorists offer in thinking about the history of modern science; the diversity of "scientific" traditions in non-European as well as in European cultures; and the directions that might be taken by less androcentric and Eurocentric scientific projects? How might modern sciences' projects be linked more firmly to the prodemocratic yearnings that are so widely voiced in contemporary life? Carefully balancing poststructuralist and conventional epistemological resources, this study concludes by proposing new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.

Sociology of knowledge --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Decolonization. --- Science --- Technology --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Feminism. --- Decolonization --- Dekolonisatie --- Dekolonisation --- Descolonização --- Décolonisation --- Feminism --- Feminisme --- Féminisme --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Feminism and science --- Sciences --- Technologie --- Féminisme et sciences --- Décolonisation --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's liberation --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Emancipation --- Science - Social aspects. --- Science - History. --- Technology - History.

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In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below.

Science --- Women in science --- Sciences --- Femmes dans les sciences --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Aspect social --- Philosophie --- Civilization, Modern. --- Feminist theory. --- Technology --- Women in science. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects.

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Dit is het eerste uitvoerige en kritische overzicht van vijftien jaar feministische wetenschapskritiek. De filosofe Sandra Harding onderzoekt drie epistemologische benaderingen binnen het feministische debat: het feministisch empirisme, dat alleen slechte wetenschap bekritiseert; de feministische kritiek die de maatschappelijke ervaringen van vrouwen beschouwt als een uniek uitgangspunt om in het wetenschappelijk onderzoek mannelijke vooroordelen te ontdekken; en het feministisch postmodernisme, dat de meest fundamentele wetenschappelijke veronderstellingen in vraag stelt. Harding duidt de spanningen en tegenstellingen aan binnen deze kritiek, wijst op de ontoereikendheid van bepaalde concepten waarop feministische wetenschappers zich baseren, en op onvermoede hindernissen of lacunes in hun onderzoek. Toch houdt Harding vol dat het kritische debat dat feministen op gang brachten noodzakelijk is voor het hedendaagse wetenschappelijk onderzoek. Ze verdedigt de stelling dat wetenschap nooit waardevrij is en pleit voor meer adequate opvatting over wetenschappelijke objectiviteit: een opvatting die gebaseerd is op emancipatorische waarden als antiracisme, anti-seksisme en de strijd tegen de klassemaatschappij.

Feminism --- Science --- Sexism in science --- Women in science --- Féminisme --- Sciences --- Sexisme dans la science --- Femmes dans les sciences --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Theory of knowledge --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sexism in science. --- #SBIB:316.23H2 --- #SBIB:316.346H10 --- Women in science. --- Feminism. --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Sociologie van de wetenschappen --- Vrouwenproblematiek, feminisme: algemeen --- Social aspects. --- Emancipation --- Minorities in science --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Science - Social aspects. --- Androcentrism --- Book --- Epistemology

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